Le Roi Danse - Prelude Acte II (Lully)

[MsOal]

act of what an opera a ballet tell me 

[radioconantena65]

/watch?v=h8bRwKpWFXI

[KingdomEnfilade]

Theatricality

[tcm091011]

he looks so handsome. :)

[deBeaugency]

Comment se nomme cet air ?

[jplully]

@adrianofsaraujo And Priests play with young children. 

[Refragatio]

@adrianofsaraujo

Ta yeule.

[philippusII]

what is the name of the movie?

[maguydib]

Le Roi Danse

[SargProf]

The technical comments re military musicians and uniforms are all correct, but this scene of course does not depict a battle or even any military training. Jean-Baptiste Lully is simply providing "mood music" while the king poses for an allegorical battle painting. But yes, Louis XIV has a hat in all such paintings. The film, as art, usually comes down on the side of "artistic liscense," in other scences as well.

[MrQuebec]

The king would have worn a hat.

[giaenonancora]

this movie is... exalted!! Is also crazy... It's too theatral...

[Refragatio]

Theatral ? This..is..FRANCE !

[deffe3]

I agree

[cyparris3]

it's about baroque music. And baroque means theatrality

[MrRobh12]

@cyparris3 

[MrRobh12]

@cyparris3 baroque comes from the portugues for mishapen pearl actually ;)

[pbegley99]

Military musicians wore the livery of the colonel of their regiment. In the case of the household troops, the "Maison du Roi" this was the King, so they wore royal livery - without armour. If you want to see a modern survival of this practice look at the uniforms and costumes of the Corps of Drums, State Trumpeters and Regimental Bands of the Household Division of the British Army

[pbegley99]

They are wearing pikeman's armour. Only the pikes and maybe officers wore armour at this period and that was on the way out. 80% of the infantry were musket armed and usually did not wear armour. Violinists were not military musicians. A large part of the purpose of military music was to transmit commands - violins are useless for this. The infantry and dragoons had drummers, fifers (fifes not flutes) and sometimes bands of hautbois (oboes). Cavalry had kettledrummers and trumpeters.

[LutzDerLurch]

Drummers and Fifers yes, for increasing Moral, or drumming Commands, keeping the Marching in Cadence etc. But here the Music is to create a aggressive Atmosphere and help the Painters to imagine and paint a Battle in the Background of what appearently is to become Portraits of the King, in an allegoric Pose as a Conquerer.

[L4NdSkN3ChT]

one time, during a battle, Louis XIV took also all his court ladies with him. In the field the baroque rulers had often musicians like trumpeteers, hornists, drummers and oboists next to them ('cause of the atmosohere).....hence were violinists nothing exotic, I think :D

[HARMONICO101]

Um, did they really sound out violinists in armour to play music on the battlefield?

[lalungenuictdestens]

Yes! Actually always have been musicians in the wars; the celts used to scare enemies with their bagpipes and drums; in Mexico, Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo's "True Story of the Conquest of the New Spain", say that they had drummers and flutists with them! ;)

[HARMONICO101]

I know and understand that they often had drums and flutes in battle, but violinists??

[nonirish]

Hey ... in some southern churches music men wear lime-green suits, play electric bass guitars, and sweat a lot. I think the morions made the scene seem Polish.